WHITE GRAPES HARVEST

On Thursday and Friday last week we harvested for the first time ever all our Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay. Even though we had some differences in the quality and maduration of the grapes we could process 6000 liters of each varietal. For the white wines we have rented some space in another winery,which has good cooling system for fermentation and maceration.

BRONCE MEDAL

Our Alpamanta Reserva 2007 won the Bronce Medal at the Argentina Wine Awards last week in the Malbec US$ 20-50 category. More than 500 samples were tasted by experts from Argentina, Canada, USA, Brasil and UK.

LAUNCH OF NEW WEBSITE

As of march 1 st we launched our new Website www.alpamanta.com. This site is targeted to the industry experts and contains plenty of information on the wines, winemaking methods used and vineyard characteristics. Also there will be a seperate section on wine tasting notes from Experts and press coverage on awards and articles in Media and TV. There will also be a direct link to this Blog to be updated on all events around our project.

UPCOMING HARVEST 2009

End of this week we will start harvesting the white grapes (Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay), respecting the biodynamic calendar.

2008 WINES- FINAL BLENDS

On february 19th we defined the final cuts for our 2008 product line.

Malbec Estate - 4600 liters: 95 % Malbec and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon- 100 % oak

Cabernet Sauvignon Estate - 5250 liters: 92% Cabernet, 8 % Malbec- 34% oak

Malbec Reserva- 5250 liters: 92.5% Malbec and 7.5% Cabernet- 100 % oak

On march 10th we will bottle both Alpamanta Estate varieties, which will make the ageing process 9 months ,the same as in 2007.